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The roles of the Ontario Cereal Crops Committee (OCCC) are to:

*Act as the recommending body for cereal variety registration in Ontario. OCCC also advises the Canadian Food Inspection Agency Variety Registration Office (CFIA) as to whether registration of varieties should be extended to Ontario if the variety has been supported for registration outside of Ontario.

*Coordinate cereal performance testing and dissemination of the results.

*Review cereal-related research (public and private) to facilitate its coordination. Part of this role leads to the inclusion of new information in the Agronomy Guide (publication 811).